





CBDC for Retail, Wholesale and International Payments
POSTED ON • BY Ousmène Jacques Mandeng
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would help advance the digitalisation of payments and the economy as a whole. Retail, wholesale and international payments using CBDC would expand choices, enabling more diversified payment systems and greater autonomy for the central bank. CBDC for retail payments CBDC can serve as a settlement medium for digital transactions online…
Be a credit hero: How to manage problem loans
POSTED ON • BY Paula O'Reilly & John Newlin
Managing loans amid COVID-19 is a big concern for middle market banks. They see the spike in non-performing loans coming—and the speed and scale at which it is happening. But there’s no playbook for the unprecedented. To get some insights into this top-of-mind issue, I caught up with my colleague John Newlin. He leads banking…
CBDC and Technology: Enabling blockchain to drive change
POSTED ON • BY Ousmène Jacques Mandeng
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) represents a potential digital sea change in the daily function of finance. The key innovation is the adoption of a value-based, or token-based, approach to money. CBDC tokens can exhibit features akin to those of a bearer instrument—such as a bank note—encapsulating all of the properties needed to assign value,…
X Factor: Can Singapore be green finance’s Silicon Valley?
POSTED ON • BY PC Chakravarti
This series of blogs looks at the opportunities and challenges associated with green finance in Southeast Asia, and draws on a recent position paper “Green Finance in Singapore and ASEAN: Opportunities and Challenges” by EuroCham Singapore and Accenture. In recent years, Singapore has positioned itself as Asia’s home for green – or sustainable – finance.…
Outside-in lens—four key principles for the future of banking
POSTED ON • BY Accenture Banking & Guy Russell & Stewart Baxter & Rohan Mahajan
So far in this blog series we’ve talked about how an outside-in approach to banking can help Australian banks convert the current threats and challenges into opportunities. We believe this bold approach to shaking the status quo will be guided by four key principles: 1. Be married to nothing. 2. Re-establish trust with customers. 3.…
Global trade’s new normal: how banks can react
POSTED ON • BY Mahendra Kasula
In this blog – the second in this two-part series – I’ll look at how banks should respond to the shifts happening within trade and supply chain finance due to market forces and COVID-19. In my previous blog, we discussed the upending of supply chains, and saw how the geopolitical landscape and economic fallout from…
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